In the night we had torrential rain and strong gusts of wind. Mrs H heard the sound of water overflowing the gutter and asked me to go and investigate (it's OK, it was only 11.30 and I hadn't quite got off to sleep).

Anyway I surveyed our guttering system (which does to be fair get clogged up with fallen leaves each autumn) and realised the problem was next door.

They had their roof done and new guttering put in last summer. I went back to bed to find my wife fast asleep. I explained this morning that it was next door and her response was "we should get ours done".

Me "But ours is OK, it's next door that has the problem"

Her "But it might be ours next time and I don't want it to damage our walls"